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POCKET PENCIL HOLDER.

No. 369,898. Patented Sept. 13, 1887.

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UN TED STATES PATENT Orricn.

FRANK WHITE, or TROY, NEW. YORK.

POCKET PENCIL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 369,898, dated September 13, 1887.

Application filed July 23, 1887. Serial No. 245,069. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK WHITE, of the city of Troy, county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pocket Pencil-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device that is adapted to attach to the inside and upper edge of-a vest or coat pocket for the reception and retention of pencils or pens;and the object and purpose of my invention are to connect with a pocket a means for retaining a pencil or pen therein so that it will not drop out and be lost.

Accompanying this specification to form a part of it there is a sheet of drawings containing four figures illustrating my invention,with

' the same designation of parts by letter-reference used in all of them.

Of these illustrations, Figure 1 shows a front View of a vest with my invention applied to the upper under edge of one of the pockets. Fig. 2 shows a front elevation, and as separated from its connection with the vest-pocket, of my improved pencil-holder. Fig. 3 shows a section taken on the line or x of Fig. 2, with the fastenings by which it is attached not clamped down. Fig. 4. shows a central and longitudinal section of the device, taken on the same line as that shown at Fig. 3, but illustrating the device as secured to the garment and with pencils inserted therein, the device as shown at Figs. 2, 3, and 4 being illustrated in larger proportion than at Fig. l.

The several parts of the device thus illustrated are designated by letter-reference, and the function of the parts is described as follows:

The letter V designates the vest, and 1? one of its pockets.

The letter H designates the pencil-holder, produced by threading through two or more 0 buckles, B,two thicknesses of webbing, W, with spaces S between each of said buckles and between the two thicknesses of webbing,wherein pencils or pens may be inserted, as shown at Fig. 4. 5

The letters 6 designate eyelet-holes made in i the two ends of the deyice adapted to receive a clamping-nail, N, having a head, it, the two prong ends ofsaid nail being pointed, so as to freely pass through the fabric of the vest and then be bent or clinched down against-it, as shown at Fig. 4.

The letters B indicate bindingclainps that are pinched onto the ends of the outer thickness of the webbing. 5

As thus made the device is easily attached to the inside of the vest-pocket,where it is out of sight when not in use, and it is adapted to secure and retain pencils or pens in place.

Havingthus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

A pencil-holder made of two thicknesses of webbing connected between their ends by means of buckles, so as to leave intermediate. spaces for the insertion of a pencil or pencils, and adapted to attach to the pocket of a vest or garment, substantially in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.

Signed at Troy, New York, this 16th day of July, 1887, and in the presence of the two witnesses whose names are hereto written.

' FRANK WHITE.

Witnesses:

CHARLES S. BRINTNALL, W. E. HAGAN, 

